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<TITLE>Obtaining and installing Greek fonts</TITLE>

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Obtaining and installing Greek fonts
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To correctly display the greek WWW pages on your screen, your
system needs to support Greek according to the standard ISO 8859-7.
If it doesn't, you need to install a suitable Greek "font". You also
need to correctly configure your WWW-browser (Netscape, Mosaic etc).
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We provide the software and instructions on how to do this on various
platforms. Note that sofar our solutions enable you to view/print greek
text (but not actually write Greek on all systems). We would appreciate
your feedback and expert's opinion to
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<H2>MS Windows 3.1</H2>

To add greek fonts to your Windows 3.1x system
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1) Get the file
<!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/arial.exe">arial.exe</a>
(165 KB) and execute it in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory. It is a self-extracting LHA file that contains greek
TrueType fonts.
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2) Add the "Arial Greek" font to your Windows.
Select [Main] -> [Control Panel]. In the [Control Panel]
double-click the [Fonts] icon. Click [Add New Font] and
select all four "Arial Greek" as the fonts you want to add.
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3) In Netscape, from menu [Options] select [Preferences].
Then, from [Set Preferences On] choose [Fonts and Colors].
Finally, using the [Choose Font] buttons, select "Arial Greek"
as your viewing font.

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<H2>Macintosh / System 7.1 or later</H2>

Get file
<!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/patcher.sit">patcher.sit</a>
(unpack it with StuffIt) and apply the patch to Netscape 1.1N. You can then
use your own high-quality greek (non-standard) Mac fonts, which yield
best results for the moment. (tsaoutos@hyper.gr)
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Alternatively, for an ELOT-928 compliant Mac font, get
<!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/hellastimes.sit.hqx">hellastimes.sit.hqx</a>
(70 KB) and once you've decompressed its contents, drop the font files in
the System Folder. Select "HellasTimes" as the font to use in Netscape
and "MacRoman" encoding (Options -> Preferences -> etc). (topalis@euclid.iacm.forth.gr)

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<H2>DOS</H2>
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These solutions REQUIRE a VGA graphics adapter (Hercules etc not supported).
Get the file
<!WA6><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/abcgrl.com">abcgrl.com</a>
(16 KB) and run it from DOS. It offers support for ISO 8859-7 (ELOT 928)
and older, obsolete character sets. Switch to ELOT 928 with Alt-3.
Other options are IBM 851 (Alt-2) and IBM 437 (Alt-1). (lialiamb@hyper.gr)
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A more "orthodox" way, using the DOS-supplied programs for handling
different codepages, uses a CPI file. Get 
<!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/dosgreek.zip">dosgreek.zip</a>
(12 KB) a ZIP file which contains GAUSS.CPI and GRKEYB.COM.
To add the Greek Font GAUSS.CPI under DOS 6.xx or DOS 7.0/Win95. (mchris@hyper.gr)
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1) Add the following lines to your CONFIG.SYS file:

if you have DOS 7.0/Win95
	DEVICE=C:\WIN95\COMMAND\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
	COUNTRY=xxx,737,C:\WIN95\COMMAND\COUNTRY.SYS

if you have DOS 6.22 or earlier
	DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
	COUNTRY=xxx,737,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS

where xxx is your country code.
	

2) Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

if you have DOS 7.0/Win95
	C:\WIN95\COMMAND\MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((437) C:\path\GAUSS.CPI)
	C:\WIN95\MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=437

if you have DOS 6.22 or earlier
	C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((437) C:\path\GAUSS.CPI)
	C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=437

where path is where is the GAUSS.CPI file.

3) Restart the computer.

To Add Greek DOS Keyboard driver add the following line to your
CONFIG.SYS file:

INSTALL=C:\path\GRKEYB.COM

where "path" is where is the GRKEYB.COM file.

The swap between the Greek and US Keyboard is with Ctrl-Alt-Space.
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<H2>X11 Window System Release 5 or later</H2>

Get file
<!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/X11_greek_fonts.tar.z">X11_greek_fonts.tar.z</a>
(58 KB) and decompress it with GNU gzip.
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You can find an excellent description on installing Greek under X11 in
<!WA9><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~moshovos/fonts/X11-greek.html">[Greek and X11]</a>
(ngramm@hyper.gr).
We also recommend that you read
<!WA10><a href="http://www.duth.gr/gr/grfonts.html">[Greek in WWW]</a>
by the Democritus University of Thrace. Consult the manual of your
system for details.
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